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“#About nine family members to suffer grief from every COVID-19 fatality” Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Deaths from COVID-19 will have a ripple effect causing impacts on the mental health and health of surviving family members. But the extent of that impact has been hard to assess until now. Every death from COVID-19 will impact approximately…
“#Chicago air is dirtier this July than smog-choked Los Angeles” Credit: CC0 Public Domain After missing out on cleaner air during the coronavirus lockdown, the Chicago area just suffered its longest streak of high-pollution days in more than a decade. Nine consecutive days of bad air swept through the region amid an emerging scientific link…
“#Most 50 adults say they’ve experienced ageism, most still hold positive aging attitudes” Key findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging’s poll on experiences of ageism and attitudes toward aging among people aged 50 to 80 Credit: University of Michigan An offhand remark by an acquaintance about using a smartphone. A joke about someone…
“#COVID-19 and Brexit can help with the recovery of UK fish stocks” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The United Kingdom has a unique opportunity to start rebuilding its fish stocks by taking advantage of the slowdown in commercial fishing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing Brexit negotiations, new research has shown. A study by the…
“#Simultaneous, reinforcing policy failures led to Flint water crisis, providing lessons during pandemic” Credit: University of Michigan Concurrent failures of federal drinking water standards and Michigan’s emergency manager law reinforced and magnified each other, leading to the Flint water crisis, according to a University of Michigan environmental policy expert. Flint’s experience offers lessons during the…
“#New substance library to accelerate the search for active compounds” For the study, the enzyme endothiapepsin (gray) was combined with molecules from the fragment library. The analysis shows that numerous substances are able to dock to the enzyme (blue and orange molecules). Every substance found is a potential starting point for the development of larger…
“#A micro-lab on a chip detects blood type within minutes” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Blood transfusion, if performed promptly, is a potentially life-saving intervention for someone losing a lot of blood. However, blood comes in several types, some of which are incompatible with others. Transfusing an incompatible blood type can severely harm a patient. It…
“#Research: Crop plants are taking up microplastics” Large gaps between epidermal cells at the site of lateral root emergence. Credit: YIC Microplastics (MPs), i.e., tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length, can now be found throughout the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems, and even in our seafood and salt. As MPs have become…
“#About eight percent of red giants are covered by sunspot-like dark areas.” Three Paths to Red Giants with Spots. Credit: MPS/hormesdesign.de Starspots are more common among red giant stars than previously thought. In the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany report that approximately…
“#Electron cryo-microscopy: Using inexpensive technology to produce high-resolution images” 3D-structure of apoferritin produced by electron cryo-microscopy. Credit: Panagiotis Kastritis Biochemists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have used a standard electron cryo-microscope to achieve surprisingly good images that are on par with those taken by far more sophisticated equipment. They have succeeded in determining the…